What does Google Dance mean?
Google Dance means the continuous dance of search results. Search engines have to update their database regularly so that the search results are of the highest possible quality. In the days of Google Dance, Google carried out index updates every 4 weeks. As a result, the search results fluctuated greatly between the old and new index. These fluctuations lasted for several days. As a result, the page rank also fluctuated between the different search results. This is how the index update came to be called Google Dance.
Today, the index is updated daily, as crawlers search the internet several times a day for new content and websites. The Google Dance no longer exists as such.
How did the Google Dance come about?
From the beginning of Google until the 2000s, the Google Dance took place every month. Due to the fluctuating rankings in the page rank, it was not possible to predict what ranking could be expected after the Google Dance.
The idea behind Google Dance was to reduce the load on the thousands of servers. At the time, all the new ratings and lists of the countless websites could not be updated at the same time. When the algorithm was changed each month, these were uploaded to the server. The problem was that the new ratings were not updated everywhere. As a result, not all servers were at the same level and the Google Dance took place during this time. The results were more or less “dancing” around. As a result, it was easy for the search results to be different.
Why was Google Dance abolished?
Google used a new indexing strategy as a result of the growing number of websites and ranking factors. Google is constantly improving crawling to ensure that search queries are answered as up-to-date as possible. With the Google Caffeine update, gradual changes could be clearly observed. Using a piece-by-piece evaluation, various ranking influences and factors could be recorded in parallel, which were also incorporated into the page ranking.
As there are always updates in the algorithms, the crawling process is highly up-to-date, but never completely finished. The Caffeine update processes hundreds of thousands of websites simultaneously in one second. Almost 100 million gigabytes of memory are required for this process and the number is growing every day.
This update abolished the Google Dance and it no longer appeared.